The distribution of HI hydrogen in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) as determined by the THINGS VLA survey extends far beyond the visible stars in the galaxy and its satellite NGC 5195 (marked by cross), ...
Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...
Mid-infrared observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shown in white, gray, and red, are combined here with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, highlighted in blue. Together, ...
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NASA's Hubble detects mysterious plume of gas escaping from an active spiral galaxy
The Virgo cluster, despite being millions of light-years away, closest large galaxy cluster to Earth. The Virgo galaxy cluster has been pivotal in the history of astronomical findings. In fact, one of ...
A jewel-like galaxy radiates royally in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The NGC 4689 galaxy resides a mere 54 million light-years from our planet and holds a deep mythological lore from ...
At larger scales, things get a little more complicated. Our galaxy is part of a collection of galaxies called the Local Group, which includes the Milky Way; the Andromeda galaxy; a smaller spiral ...
Lying just to the northeast and southwest of Alkaid, the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper, is a pair of small smudges of light visible in a pair of binoculars on a dark, moonless night. The ...
The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...
In a nutshell: Far beyond the orbit of Pluto lies a mysterious region filled with icy objects circling the Sun. This distant zone, known as the Oort Cloud, remains unseen, but its existence is ...
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Astronauts snap a rare galaxy bursting with stars near the Milky Way
From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...
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